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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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APPENDIX A

WORKSHOP AGENDA

ANTICIPATING BIOSECURITY CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF HIGH-
CONTAINMENT
BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES
Istanbul, Turkey
July 11-13, 2011

This international workshop will examine issues related to the design, construction, and operation of high-containment biological laboratories—equivalent to United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Biological Safety 3 or 4 level labs. Although these laboratories are needed to isolate some highly dangerous pathogens, they are complex systems with inherent risks. The workshop will aim to engage scientific experts and policy makers both from countries experienced in operating laboratories and from countries that are contemplating or undertaking the construction of new facilities. Possible areas for discussion include:

•   Technological options to meet diagnostic, research, and other goals;

•   Laboratory construction and commissioning;

•   Operational maintenance to provide sustainable capabilities, safety, and security;

•   Measures for encouraging a culture of responsible conduct

Workshop participants will explore possible strategies for enhancing biological safety and security worldwide and will offer practical suggestions to countries considering constructing or expanding their high biocontainment facilities.

AGENDA

JULY 10, 2011

Some Participants Arrive

 

20:00    Informal Reception (Jolly Café, Point Hotel)

JULY 11, 2011
(Main Meeting Room: Fuji II)

8:30   

Registration (Remaining Participants Arrive)

        
9:00   

Plenary: Welcome

Adel Mahmoud (NRC Committee Chair, Princeton University, United States)

Sevket Ruacan (Koç University, School of Medicine, Turkey)

Sumi Paranjape (Biosecurity Engagement Program, United States)

        
9:20   

Plenary: Framing the Issue, Part 1:

The function of high-containment labs and factors encouraging and constraining the creation of new labs

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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This session will start by reminding the participants that lab practices are intended to keep the worker safe, buildings are designed to keep the community safe, and that there are often many ways of achieving those objectives. The session will then describe the recent expansion in the number of high-containment biology labs including the types of labs, the standards and designs used, factors driving and restraining the expansion, and safety and security concerns.

Chair: Katsuhisa Furukawa (Rebuild Japan Initiative, Japan)

•   Russian and United States biosafety experiences during the last two decades:
Lessons and achievements Peter Palese (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States) and Sergey Netesov (Novosibirsk State University, Russia)

•   Containment labs - Who wants them, who funds them, and why Jennifer Gaudioso (Sandia National Laboratories, United States)

•   Discussion

        
10:30    Break
        
11:00   

Plenary: Framing the Issue, Part 2:

The current status and opportunities for the future

This session will describe how well currently operating labs are meeting their objectives and what challenges they are encountering. Additionally, speakers will summarize current discussions in the area and ask if we are at the beginning of the next paradigm where countries are looking at new ways of achieving and maintaining the necessary containment.

Chair: Anwar Nasim (Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation [COMSTECH], Pakistan)

•   Laboratory capacity, biosafety, and biosecurity in Africa: Gaps, goals, needs, and progress Willy Tonui (Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya)

•   Current thinking and trends ahead Teck-Mean Chua (Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association, Singapore [Malaysia])

•   Discussion

        
12:15    Lunch
        
13:15   

Plenary: Assessments of Needs, Challenges, and Resources

This session will provide an overview of local assessments including: what they are, what purpose they serve, who should be involved in a local assessment, and what information might be included.

Chair: Seval Korkmaz (Abdi Ibrahim, Turkey)

•   Challenges and suggestions for sustainable biosafety and biosecurity capacity in low resource countries Craig Reed (Inspirion Biosciences, United States)

•   Biosafety and biosecurity challenges in the Caribbean region Valerie Wilson (Caribbean Med Labs Foundation, Trinidad & Tobago)

•   Discussion

        
14:15   

Breakout Sessions

(Rapporteurs will prepare brief summaries for later presentation) Paths from assessments to functional labs

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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While the previous sessions examined assessments broadly, this session will provide specific examples of the process by which countries and corporations decide where and when to build labs, the degree to which their original objectives have been achieved, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

Each speaker will focus mainly on a single lab and describe that lab’s strengths, ongoing efforts to sustain and improve capabilities, and key obstacles that have been successfully overcome. Topics to be discussed may include how well the lab is fulfilling its original research and public health goals; where the lab is situated within country and regional networks; whether initial and on-going costs and funding have been as expected; and ongoing biosafety, biosecurity, and maintenance efforts.

     

Session #1: Eastern Asia (Room: Babylon I)

Chair: Leila dos Santos Macedo (ANBio, Brazil)
Rapporteur: Fran Sharples

•   Meeting international biosafety and biocontainment standards in low-resource settings - The southeast Asian experience Stuart Blacksell (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand [Australia])

•   Establishing and operating a BSL-3 facility in South Korea: The International Vaccine Institute experience
Soh Jin Lee (International Vaccine Institute, South Korea)

•   Biocontainment for clinical and research activities
Sunee Sirivichayakul (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

•   Discussion

     

Session #2: Africa (Room: Fuji I)

Michael Ugrumov (Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, Russia)
Rapporteur: Benjamin Rusek

•   Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute in Egypt: Present & future prospects Seham El-Zeedy (Veterinary Serum & Vaccine Research Institute, Egypt)

•   A medical research center in the heart of a tropical rainforest Jean-Paul Gonzalez (CIRMF, Gabon [France])

•   Morocco Biopharma RL for diagnostic and veterinary vaccines: Current situation and future challenges Mehdi El Harrak (Biopharma, Morocco)

•   Discussion

     

Session #3: Eastern Europe and Western Asia (Room: Fuji II)

Chair: Greg Smith (CSIRO, Australian Animal Health Lab, Australia)
Rapporteur: Alison Hottes

•   Central Public Health Research Laboratory Art Lyons (WRAIR, United States [Republic of Georgia])

•   Planning a cost-effective and sustainable BSL-3, lessons learned- Kyrgyz Republic Ken Ugwu (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Canada)

•   Why we need a BSL-3 Laboratory at the Pendik Veterinary Control and Research Institute Ayşe Selma İyisan (Pendik Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Turkey), and Ayşen Gargili (Marmara University, Turkey)

•   The history and current status of the Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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    Evgeniy Tkachenko (Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Russia)

•   Discussion

        
16:00    Break
        
16:30   

Plenary: Available resources, regulations, and guidelines

This session will characterize the international, regional, and local resources available to countries; will describe sources of guidance on how to build, operate, and improve labs; and will examine alternatives to relying exclusively on within-country labs.

Chair: Serhiy Komisarenko (Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Ukraine)

•   International regulatory frameworks, standards, and guidelines Ingegerd Kallings (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Sweden)

•   IFBA’s biocontainment engineering network Ken Ugwu (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Canada)

•   Sustaining regional & national biosafety associations: Challenges and considerations Teck-Mean Chua (Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association, Singapore [Malaysia])

•   Discussion

     

Country Overview Writers: Panel Discussion on Local Resources, Regulations, and Guidelines

Chair: Serhiy Komisarenko (Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Ukraine)

•   Biosafety laws and regulations in Turkey Hüseyin Avni Öktem (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

•   High-containment laboratories in Ukraine- Local resources and regulations Olena Kysil (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

•   Overview of biosafety and biosecurity in high-containment labs in Brazil Leila dos Santos Macedo (ANBio, Brazil)

•   Bio-technology and biosecurity initiatives in Pakistan: A country report Anwar Nasim (Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation [COMSTECH], Pakistan)

•   High-containment microbiology laboratories in Europe Ingegerd Kallings (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Sweden)

•   Panel Discussion

     

Additional Country Overview Writers (Please see workshop binder for these overviews):

•   High-containment laboratories - Sweden case study Ingegerd Kallings (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Sweden)

•   Overview of high-containment biological laboratories in Russia Michael V. Ugrumov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) and Sergey V. Netesov (Novosibirsk State University, Russia)

•   High-containment laboratories – U.K. case study Neil Davison (International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland [United Kingdom]) and Filippa Lentzos (London School of Economics, United Kingdom [Norway])

•   United States high-containment biological labs and regulations
United States National Research Council Staff

        
18:30    Break
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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19:00    Dinner (Point Hotel Restaurant)
        
20:00   

Keynote Address: Pandemic Influenza: The origin, spread, and response to the 2009 H1N1 strain

Peter Palese (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States)

JULY 12, 2011

9:00   

Summary from Day 1 (Plenary)

Presentations from Rapporteurs of Day 1 Breakout Sessions and Audience Comments

        
9:45    Movement to Breakout Sessions
        
10:00   

Breakout Sessions (break from 10:45-11:15)

(Rapporteurs will prepare brief summaries for later presentation)

Public health needs: Costs, effectiveness, and biosafety requirements for diagnostic procedures

These sessions will (1) describe the public health needs lab workers are attempting to meet, the range of tools being utilized, and the challenges regularly encountered and (2) examine the spectrum of molecular, immunological, and culture-based assays available as well their associated costs, effectiveness, and biosafety requirements.

     

Session #1: Human Diseases Part 1 (Room: Babylon I)

Chair: Ingegerd Kallings (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Sweden)
Rapporteur: Alison Hottes

•   Preparedness for the detection of emerging and re-emerging pathogens in Croatia Alemka Markotic (University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Croatia)

•   Biorisks connected with wild birds: Results of avian influenza virus surveillance in southwest Siberia (Russia) in 2010
Alexander Shestopalov (State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector,” Russia)

•   Biosafety recommendations for laboratory testing for tuberculosis Tom Shinnick (Centers for Disease Control, United States)

•   Discussion

     

Session #2: Human Diseases Part 2 (Room: Fuji II)

Chair: Peter Palese (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States)
Rapporteur: Michael Callahan (DARPA, United States)

•   Biosafety and the southeast Asian infectious diseases clinical research network Rogier van Doorn (Oxford University, Vietnam [Netherlands])

•   SARS Coronavirus: Diagnosis, antibody responses and biosafety concerns Cheng Cao (Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, China)

•   Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever- Pakistan perspective Birjees Mazhar Kazi (National Institute of Health, Pakistan) and Sohail Zaidi (National Institute of Health, Pakistan)

•   EHEC O104:H4 in Germany 2011: Large outbreak of bloody diarrhoea and haemolytic uraemic syndrome by Shiga toxin-producing E. coli via contaminated food Reinhard Burger (Robert Koch Institute, Germany)

     

Session #3: Animal and Livestock Diseases (Room: Fuji I)

Chair: David Franz (MRIGlobal, United States)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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Rapporteur: Fran Sharples

•   The work and capabilities of the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory at Bhopal Gaya Prasad (Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India)

•   Diagnostic capability on exotic and emerging animal diseases of the Mexico official laboratory network Marco Antonio Rico Gaytan (Mexico-US Commission for the Prevention of Foot & Other Exotic Animal Diseases, Mexico)

•   Coping with deadly viruses Supaporn Wacharapluesadee (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

•   Discussion

        
12:30    Lunch
        
14:00   

Breakout Sessions

(Rapporteurs will prepare brief summaries for later presentation)
Identifying areas for action

Collectively, these sessions will (1) generate strategies and suggestions for countries building/improving or considering building/improving labs (2) consider what data on biosafety would be most useful to generate and (3) identify areas where current biosafety practices are not well-matched to actual needs.

     

Session #1: Determining necessary and appropriate precautions (Room: Babylon I)

Chair: Michael Callahan (DARPA, United States)
Rapporteur: Craig Reed (Inspirion Biosciences, United States)

•   Evidence based biosafety - Ensuring precautions are adequate and appropriate Allan Bennett (Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom)

•   Risk based design of facilities for high consequence animal pathogens Uwe Mueller-Doblies (Institute for Animal Health, United Kingdom [Germany])

•   Emerging Infections in Turkey: Do we need biosafety labs? Onder Ergonul (Koç University, School of Medicine, Turkey)

•   Discussion

     

Session #2: Improving organizational culture and practices (Room: Fuji I)

Chair: Serhiy Komisarenko (Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Ukraine)
Rapporteur: Benjamin Rusek

•   Enlightened laboratory leadership: More powerful than guns, gates and guards David Franz (MRIGlobal, United States)

•   Singapore’s response to biorisk events at home and abroad Presented by Teck-Mean Chua (Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association, Malaysia/Singapore) on behalf of Ling Ai Ee (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore)

•   OIE laboratory twinning - A tool to improve global disease security Keith Hamilton (World Organisation for Animal Health [OIE], France [United Kingdom])

•   Discussion

     

Session #3: Design and operational options for improving sustainability, biosafety, and biosecurity (Room: Fuji II)

Chair: Willy Tonui (Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya)
Rapporteur: Jennifer Gaudioso (Sandia National Laboratories, United States)

•   Maintenance, certification and cost-saving issues for BSL-3 labs in southeast Asia

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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    Stuart Blacksell (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand [Australia])

•   The BSL-3 lab at Institut Pasteur du Maroc Mohammed Hassar (Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Morocco)

•   A rational and attainable approach to successfully implementing biosafety in laboratory settings worldwide Barbara Johnson (Biosafety Biosecurity International, United States)

•   Engineering control: Challenges in maintaining BSL-3 (country experience) Pretty Sasono (Litbangkess, Indonesia)

•   Discussion

        
15:30    Break
        
16:00   

Plenary: Requirements for and challenges associated with BSL-4 Labs

This session will discuss how many BSL-4 facilities are needed in a region; construction and maintenance costs; biosecurity issues, environmental risks (especially for pathogens affecting domestic animals where the potential economic impact is striking); training; strategies to manage an individual who may become infected with a BSL-4 agent; community relations; whether existing and planned networks are adequate; how much and what kinds of “surge capacity” are ideal; whether existing facilities can be re-tasked during a crisis; and if BSL-4 labs can be safely made less technology-intensive or easier to sustain.

(Panel Discussion)

Chair: James Le Duc (University of Texas Medical Branch, United States)

•   From the detection of BSL-4 pathogens to the development of preventive and curative strategies
Gary Kobinger (Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada)

•   Requirements for and challenges associated with BSL-4 laboratories: Maintaining an aging facility
Greg Smith (CSIRO, Australian Animal Health Lab, Australia)

•   Needs, potential, and constraints for developing an advanced laboratory in a challenging technical and social environment
Jean-Paul Gonzalez (CIRMF, Gabon [France])

•   The high-containment laboratory in the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan: Activities, circumstances, and future challenges
Masayuki Saijo (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan)

•   Panel Discussion

        
18:30    Break
        
19:30    Conference Dinner (Haci Baba Restaurant)

JULY 13, 2011

9:00   

Summary from Day 2 (Plenary)

Presentations from Rapporteurs of Day 2 Breakout Sessions and Audience Comments

        
10:30    Break
        
11:00   

Plenary: Workshop Conclusions

Chair: Adel Mahmoud (NRC Committee Chair, Princeton University, United States)

        
12:00   

Meeting Adjournment/Lunch (Some Participants Depart)

        
13:00    Bus Departs for Optional Group Visit to Pendik Veterinary Control and Research Institute

(estimated return to hotel at 18:30)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. 2012. Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13315.
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During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-containment Biological Laboratories. The United States Department of State's Biosecurity Engagement Program sponsored the workshop, which was held in partnership with the Turkish Academy of Sciences. The international workshop examined biosafety and biosecurity issues related to the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of high-containment biological laboratories- equivalent to United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention biological safety level 3 or 4 labs. Although these laboratories are needed to characterize highly dangerous human and animal pathogens, assist in disease surveillance, and produce vaccines, they are complex systems with inherent risks.

Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories summarizes the workshop discussion, which included the following topics:

  • Technological options to meet diagnostic, research, and other goals;
  • Laboratory construction and commissioning;
  • Operational maintenance to provide sustainable capabilities, safety, and security; and
  • Measures for encouraging a culture of responsible conduct.

Workshop attendees described the history and current challenges they face in their individual laboratories. Speakers recounted steps they were taking to improve safety and security, from running training programs to implementing a variety of personnel reliability measures. Many also spoke about physical security, access controls, and monitoring pathogen inventories. Workshop participants also identified tensions in the field and suggested possible areas for action.

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